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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 12, 2005Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 12, 2005, 2:24 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 9 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 12, 2005, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 12, 2005, 2:33 PM EDT
In force: 9 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 12, 2:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 S Canisteo, NY	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ROOF BLOWN OFF BARN.
Aug 12, 2:40 PM EDT	TORNADO	4 S Canisteo, NY	POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG ROUTE 36. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ROOF BLOWN OFF BARN.
Aug 12, 2:40 PM EDT	TORNADO	4 S Canisteo, NY	POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG ROUTE 36. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. ROOF BLOWN OFF BARN. NWS SURVEY TO BE CONDUCTED SATURDAY.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 12, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 120 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KBUF 121825
TORBUF
NYC003-121900-
/O.NEW.KBUF.TO.W.0002.050812T1824Z-050812T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
224 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 213 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF ALFRED...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4231 7778 4213 7779 4209 7731 4230 7730

$$

NIZIOL

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 121832
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
232 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

NYC003-121842-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0056.000000T0000Z-050812T1830Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
232 PM EDT FRI AUG 12 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY EXPIRED AT 230
PM EDT...

AT 232 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4238 7827 4220 7828 4205 7775 4234 7776

$$

NIZIOL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	48 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.